Physician assistant home visit program to reduce hospital readmissions

Hospitalist Home Visit Program

Postdischarge home visits may allow for early identification of medical complications after hospital discharge. The hospitalist home visit program (HHVP) was started with the intention of facilitating communication between primary care providers and hospitalists and reducing hospital utilization postdischarge by earlier identification of nonadherence to discharge treatment recommendations. Duri...

Hospital Strategies to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions

Heart failure (HF) currently affects 6.5 million adults in the United States (1), and its prevalence is projected to increase by 25% by 2030 (2). Hospitalization represents a turning point in the natural history of HF, with a combined mortality and readmission rate of 30% within 90 days post-discharge; one-quarter of patients are readmitted within 30 days (3,4). Hospitalizations are responsible...

Interventions to reduce hospital readmissions in the elderly: in-hospital or home care. A systematic review.

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Unplanned hospital readmissions of elderly people represent an increasing burden on health care systems. This burden could theoretically be reduced by adequate preventive interventions, although there is uncertainty about the effectiveness of different types of interventions. The objective of this systematic review was to identify interventions that effectively re...

Heart Failure Interventions to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Hospitals Collaborate with SNFs,Home Care, Hospice, to Reduce Readmissions

_ These penalties are due to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, part of the Affordable Care Act. They are based on high readmission rates for patients discharged for three conditions: chronic heart failure, heart attack, and pneumonia. (These readmissions may or may not be related to the previous hospitalization.) Data on each hospital’s readmission rate will soon be posted on CMS’s H...